Silver surfer gives to Gaza

August 21, 2007 9:00am

Palestinian youths will be hitting the waves off Gaza thanks to a donation arranged by a Jewish-American surfing veteran.

Water-sport companies in Israel got together this week and donated 10 surfboards, each worth around $450, to children in the Gaza Strip, at the behest of 87-year-old Dorian Pascowitz, a Hawaii resident known as one of the world’s oldest wave-riders.

Yediot Acharonot reported Tuesday that Pascowitz, having heard of the great waves off Gaza, contacted an Israeli friend, Arthur Rascowitz, to find ways of cultivating a new generation of Palestinian surfers.

“I’m certain they have international potential,” Rascowitz told the newspaper. “Their beaches are under-expoited. They could become surfing stars.”